Sandra Gail Griswold

On January 28, 2025, Sandra Gail Griswold died at home in Detroit. She was 79. Born on December 25, 1945, with Scottish-American roots that shaped the table more than the flag. From the start, she treated promises like tools: keep them sharp, do not lend them lightly. She cleaned barns that carried other people's mornings. A bus barn checklist yellowed but legible outlasted three managers. Colleagues still mention a bus barn checklist yellowed but legible. She married Frank in 1967. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised two sons through public schools and ordinary weather. After Frank died in 2018, she kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember someone who swept the sidewalk past the property line when weather had been unfair. She liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. She died in Detroit, among streets she never needed to explain. The tools are still hung where a hand can find them in the dark.